Tag Archives: Housing Size

Somewhere between now and 1950 (or thereabouts) something went wrong with American housing. Back then, car-fueled sprawl hadn’t yet driven people so far from city centers. At 983 sq ft, the average home was just about right sized for the.

In December we posted about Walsenburg, Colorado, a tiny town that created a building ordinance to allow for the construction of a tiny house subdivision. As we’ve long noted, zoning is the biggest hurdle for tiny houses taking off as.

There was a time when American single family homes weren’t so absurdly large. In 1950, the average household had 3.83 people and the average new single family home was 983 sq ft, making for a pretty reasonable 291 sq ft.

As micro housing has gained popularity in the last several years, a number of similarly titled articles have been published. The general wording is, “Could You Live in Only ___ [200, 300, 400] Square Feet ?” Inherent in this question.

One of this site’s most popular posts to date is “Residential Behavioral Architecture 101.” The reason, I believe, is how it shows the gulf between how our homes are used and how they are designed, not from a speculative or conjectural perspective, but from a.

If you’re a car-nut, you know the importance of a car’s power-to-weight ratio. You know that a car with 300 hp and weighs 6K lbs will accelerate slower than a car with 150 hp and weighs 1500 lbs because each horsepower in the former car must drive 20.

By 2030, it is estimated that there will be 33M more seniors (65+) than there are today. A majority of these seniors-to-be are currently living in big homes in the suburbs. These are homes that require physical capabilities to maintain, financial.

Last week, Seattle’s City Council was discussing micro-housing regulation–a discussion that’s been going on for a while. About a year ago, we looked at a proposal that sought to define a micro-apartment as a dwelling smaller than 285 sq ft; it had.

The above image was taken from an article in a Wall Street Journal article about the book “Life at Home in the 21st Century.” The UCLA group responsible for the book followed 32 middle class Los Angeles families around their homes, tracking their every move.

Big houses are the minimalist/tiny-living advocate’s whipping boy for many of the world’s ills. Few things are as easy (or big) of a target as a big houses; they take up too much land leading to sprawl, they use too many resources.